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Recommendations

Policy and Priority Actions to address gender issues in food and nutrition security,

In Asia and the Pacific

Asia-Pacific Regional High-Level Consultation on

Gender, Food Security and Nutrition: Ensuring the Other Half Equal Opportunities24-26 July, 2013

Bangkok, Thailand

Compliance with

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 66-129

Improvement of the Situation of Women in Rural Areas

We, the representatives of government agencies representing the sectors concerning gender,

food security and nutrition, civil society organizations, research institutions, the United Nations

and other international partners, from the Asia-Pacific region met at the Royal Orchid Sheratonin Bangkok, Thailand, from 24th to 26th July 2013, at the Asia and the Pacific Regional High-level

Consultation on Gender, Food Security and Nutrition: Ensuring the Other Half Equal

Opportunities. Comprised of over 60 delegates, the consultation was co- organized by Asian

Development Bank, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation and Organizing

for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management.

Participants recognized that 870 million people currently undernourished in the world, the

largest portion is from the Asia-Pacific region (nearly 62% of the world total). Worldwide, 60%

of the undernourished are estimated to be women. Gender disparities in food and nutrition

security continue to be a key concern in the international development community and among

stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region, especially given their linkages to poverty. Participants

emphasized the importance of relying on human-rights based approaches for gender

integration, forging partnerships with the latter and the participation of rural women, including

indigenous women and marginalized and vulnerable groups through their organizations and

networks, in the design, development and implementation of gender equality and rural

development programmes and strategies. In order for action to be effective, participants

recognize the importance of male involvement in gender transformative process. Participants

agreed that there are serious linkages between food insecurity and gender-based violence which

requires further attention.

Acknowledging that the Consultation was the first regional high-level event focusing on gender

dimension of food and nutrition security to share good practices and lessons learned, to

facilitate the multistakeholder dialogue among government, civil society, United Nations

Agencies, international organizations, research institutions and other stakeholders to identify


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the areas of priority actions in order to promote gender equity for reducing poverty and

achieving food and nutrition security in Asia and the Pacific.

In accordance with the relevant sections of Resolution 66-129, participants agreed to undertake

the follow-up action in their respective countries in collaboration with the key national /regional stakeholders, including CSOs, rural organizations and the private sector.

Overarching efforts to integrate gender equality in the design, implementation and evaluationof policies and programmes for poverty eradication and food and nutrition security withsystematic attention to the needs, priorities and roles of rural women as per Clause 2 (a) andClause 2 (e) of the Resolution 66-129 through the following measures:

Supporting to the political and socioeconomic empowerment of rural women andsupporting their full and equal participation in decision-making at all levels

Advancing the adoption of the appropriate social protection/social security measures tosupport rural women, including older women in rural areas. Facilitating access to rural resources and services to enhance rural womens livelihoods

and economic security through access to microcredit, extension, other key productiveresources including land rights, investments and capacity development.

Strengthening opportunities for decent rural employment for rural women, includingexpanding non-agricultural employment opportunities, improving working conditionsand increasing access to productive resources.

Enhancing availability of timely, reliable and sex-disaggregated data that will guidepolicy and programme decisions, including to strengthen the capacity of nationalstatistical offices to collect, analyse and disseminate comparable sex-disaggregated data,and gender statistics in rural areas to serve as a basis for gender-responsive policy.

Actions short term ( by 2015) Mid term

Gender responsive policiesand programmes

Design Implementation and M&E

Socioeconomic empowerment Tools and guidelines oninclusive rural institutionswith effective womens

representation

Promote womens

representation in nationalbodies (including legislative

bodies)Social protection Identify the appropriate social

protection programmesthrough technical supportsfrom development partners

Assess feasibility of selectoptions for implementation

Access to resources andservices

Identify the avenues fordelivery throughcollaboration with local and

Strengthen the ruralinstitutions to enhance accessto resources and services


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national stakeholders

Decent rural employment Raise awareness amongrights-holders

Dutybearers (states and non-state actors) to create enablingenvironment

Sex-disaggregated data Capacity development of

relevant ministries and NSOs

Generate, analyze and use for

evidence informed policies

What are regional actions Plan for the follow-ups to assess progress against the actions in 2015

aligned with post 2015 SDGs

Advance the goals and objectives of gender responsive agriculturaldevelopment for food and nutrition security through regionalframeworks/bodies such as SAARC, ASEAN and PIFS

Regional exchange of knowledge, know-how, including the good practicesbetween and among countries in the region.

Mobilize political commitment at highest level across and Asia and thePacific region

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